Marriage duties briefly couched together out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker…Marriage duties briefely couched togither out of Colossians, 3. 18, 19. By Thomas Gataker…

To make use then of this point.

To make vse then of this point.

First, if a man be thus to love his wife, then the wife is no less to love her husband. For ^*Love, we say, is Loves load-stone: and there is the like reason for either. There is no action or affection so reciprocal as love; as between God and man; so between man and man. For example. If God be angry with us, ^*we are not to be angry with him again: ^*he may have just cause to be angry with us, we can have no just cause to be angry with him: If God hate us, yet we ought not to hate him: he may justly hate us, we cannot justly ⟨p. 34⟩hate him: if he show mercy on us, we cannot show mercy to him: we stand in need of his mercy, he hath no need of our mercy, for he is subject to no misery: If he be good to us, we can not be good again to him; for all ^aour goodness is nothing to him: But God loveth us, and we are to love him again: we stand bound to love him though he hate us: but are bound in a double bond to love him, when he loveth us: In like manner here: if the husband be angry with the wife, she is not by and by to be hasty and angry again with him: if he control her, she is not therefore to control him: but he is to love her, and she is likewise to love him: yea though he should hate her, yet ought she to love him: (for she may not fail in her duty, because he faileth in his,) how much more when he loveth her is she to love him? For ^clove requireth love: and ^*